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Culinary Books
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.18 — 364,745 ratings — published 2000
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.40 — 88,974 ratings — published 2017
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,361 ratings — published 2008
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,146 ratings — published 1984
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,303 ratings — published 2006
Joy of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.13 — 195,826 ratings — published 1931
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,250 ratings — published 1961
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.31 — 24,808 ratings — published 2015
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.16 — 92,558 ratings — published 2006
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,064 ratings — published 2001
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.94 — 47,671 ratings — published 2005
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 118,873 ratings — published 2008
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,471 ratings — published 2001
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,133 ratings — published 2006
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 47,387 ratings — published 2010
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.71 — 160,523 ratings — published 2005
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,128 ratings — published 1997
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,900 ratings — published 1974
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,708 ratings — published 2013
The French Laundry Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,878 ratings — published 1999
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 38,967 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,589 ratings — published 2007
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.00 — 101,368 ratings — published 1998
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,775 ratings — published 1938
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,052 ratings — published 2009
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,422 ratings — published 1990
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 92,144 ratings — published 2021
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,297 ratings — published 2014
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,217 ratings — published 2001
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.69 — 70,095 ratings — published 2000
Yes, Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,581 ratings — published 2012
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,605 ratings — published 2007
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,491 ratings — published 2019
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,416 ratings — published 1976
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,389 ratings — published 2005
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,153 ratings — published 1954
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,171 ratings — published 1997
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,194 ratings — published 2012
Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,888 ratings — published 1992
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,582 ratings — published 2002
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,719 ratings — published 2003
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,331 ratings — published 2000
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,619 ratings — published 2009
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.15 — 138,793 ratings — published 1953
Momofuku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,049 ratings — published 2009
The Last Suppers (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,197 ratings — published 1994
The Silver Spoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,191 ratings — published 1950
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,079 ratings — published 2017
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,150 ratings — published 2012
Culinary Artistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,938 ratings — published 1996
“Without love, life is nothing but work and sleep.”
― Seducing the Playboy
― Seducing the Playboy
“in the abstract art of cooking,
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.”
―
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.”
―
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